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Preserving Content from Closed Systems Part 2: Digital Preservation of Social Media

Preservica

This is contained in the JSON and can be shown in the render tool but introduces the concept of link rot – how do we know that the information linked is the same as the time of tweeting or that the URL even still exists. So Twitter preservation has introduced some interesting digital preservation concepts.

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Gimmal Launches the First-of-its-Kind RIOT Data Assessment Solution

Gimmal

“eDiscovery fire drills in organizations large and small are like an annual checkup that finds the ROT data bloat associated with poor information governance lifecycle practices,” says Greg Buckles of eDiscovery Journal.

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Data Retention Policies in the AI Era: What’s Changing?

Gimmal

Apply ROT data remediation to purge unused or obsolete files Establish Clear Governance Strong governance structures ensure consistent application of retention policies: 1. Schedule ROT Data Remediation tasks to keep systems clutter-free 3. Employ varying retention periods and storage levels to prevent unnecessary overhead.

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Preserving your information from digital disasters

Preservica

Digital disasters of systems are increasingly common due to a number of factors including human error, computer job error, natural and manmade disasters, cybercrime, bit rot, and file format obsolescence. What Does a Digital Disaster Look Like? As a result, many of the photos were unsalvageable. Are you protected?

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Digital Fragility a "Ticking Time Bomb" for Enterprises says latest report

Preservica

OXFORD, UK and BOSTON – March 9, 2020 – Digital fragility has emerged as a risk to digital business that CIOs and CMOs are failing to confront concludes a recent report by Forrester , a leading global research and advisory firm. The role of specialty long-term digital preservation platforms and standards. •

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Part 1: OMG! Not another digital transformation article! Is it about understanding the business drivers?

ARMA International

AI can also reduce the human effort required to “crunch” vast amounts of content – generated and stored in an organization’s content repositories – in order to identify redundant, obsolete temporary (ROT) [2] content that has no business value. Blockchain, Provenance, and Authentic Information.

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RIM-brain in Movies and TV

The Texas Record

Humans were also at risk of becoming data ghosts, which are like digital zombies as the result of data degradation (a.k.a. So to bring this around to the topic of this post, this is an interesting story based on real-life issues we face in digital preservation.